Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 2 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 3 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 4 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 5 | Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue . |
| 6 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 7 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 8 | What I need is to be alone . ’ |
| 9 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 10 | What we want is to be working here . |
| 11 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |